Immerse yourself in a skyscape of migratory birds, learn about ways we can protect them in urban settings and then make your own anti-collision window decals for you take home.  Featuring original films by Patricia Homonylo and guided instruction by artist Iris Häussler. All materials provided.  

Patricia Homonylo is an Artist, Conservation Photojournalist and film maker based in Toronto, Canada. While focusing on animal and wildlife rescue, Patricia quickly learned that every animal in a rescue is the product of human interference. As habitats continue to dwindle, non-human beings are struggling to survive. Patricia wants her work to shine a light on animals caught in the crosshairs. She is determined to speak for the most vulnerable animals and give agency to the causes which drive her.  Along with being awarded in Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Patricia has been most recently awarded the prestigious title Bird Photographer of the Year. 

Iris Häussler is best known for her unsettling, immersive installations that revolve around fictitious persona and their artistic legacies. Detailed, historically researched biographies of invented characters build the basis from which she creates the material evidence of their obsessive lives and works. 

In collaboration with art-institutions and museums, these hyper-realistic environments are often shown interwoven into the local historic, social, economic and geographic contexts. 

Born in Germany and trained as a conceptual artist and sculptor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Iris Häussler’s work is shown internationally. She was an awardee of the Kunstfonds, Bonn, and won the Karl Hofer Prize 1999, in Berlin. In 2010 she was invited on the Cape Farewell (UK) High Arctic Expedition. Since her immigration to Canada she has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Chalmers Arts Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.